Dimensions of everyday memory in young adults

This paper reports the findings of two studies on everyday memory in young adulthood. In Study 1, 387 male and female college students (18-22 years old) completed the 25-item Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ; Broadbent, Cooper, Fitzgerald & Parkes, 1982). Principal components analysis yield...

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Published inThe British journal of psychology Vol. 83; no. 3; p. 305
Main Authors Pollina, Leslee K, Greene, A.L, Tunick, Ruth H, Puckett, James M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.08.1992
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Memory
Psychological aspects
Young adults
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Summary:This paper reports the findings of two studies on everyday memory in young adulthood. In Study 1, 387 male and female college students (18-22 years old) completed the 25-item Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ; Broadbent, Cooper, Fitzgerald & Parkes, 1982). Principal components analysis yielded five internally consistent factors: distractibility; misdirected actions; spatial/kinaesthetic memory; interpersonal intelligence; and memory for names. Further, each of these dimensions was interpretable within an information-processing framework. Study 2 examined the relation of the five everyday memory dimensions obtained in Study 1 to measures of working memory and traditional intelligence in a separate sample of 32 college students. Findings obtained in Study 2 suggest that attentional processes may be important components of the everyday memory construct.
ISSN:0007-1269